doc: announce igb flow API support

Add release notes update to announce support of rte_flow on igb NIC.
And update NIC features document for this feature.

Signed-off-by: Wei Zhao <wei.zhao1@intel.com>

diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/features/igb.ini b/doc/guides/nics/features/igb.ini
index d17cf18..33d64d9 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/nics/features/igb.ini
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/features/igb.ini
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ N-tuple filter       = Y
 SYN filter           = Y
 Flexible filter      = Y
 Flow control         = Y
+Flow API             = Y
 CRC offload          = Y
 VLAN offload         = Y
 QinQ offload         = Y

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_08.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_08.rst
index 842f46f..9b33da2 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_08.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_08.rst
@@ -41,6 +41,16 @@ New Features
      Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin.
      =========================================================
 
+* **Added support for generic flow API (rte_flow) on igb NIC.**
+
+  This API provides a generic means to configure hardware to match specific
+  ingress or egress traffic, alter its behavior and query related counters
+  according to any number of user-defined rules.
+
+  * Generic flow API support for Ethernet, IPv4, UDP, TCP and
+    RAW pattern items with QUEUE actions. There are four
+    type of filter support for this feature on igb.
+
 * **Added Generic Flow API support to enic.**
 
   Flow API support for outer Ethernet, VLAN, IPv4, IPv6, UDP, TCP, SCTP, VxLAN